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From Lady Gregory’s Journals vol. i, ed. Daniel J. Murphy, Coole Edition XIV (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1978) p. 106. Lady Augusta Gregory (1852–1932), playwright, translator and folklore collector, joined W. B. Yeats in 1898 in successful efforts to found an Irish theatre. Shaw wrote John Bull’s Other Island for them in 1904 (the year which saw the opening of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin). In Our Irish Theatre (1914) Lady Gregory mentioned having heard Shaw speak after a public lecture in 1897, but she probably met him through Yeats. By the time she began the Journals in 1916 she was a close friend of the Shaws, and the following recollection, dated 9 November 1919, is taken from an account of one of her numerous visits to Ayot St Lawrence.
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Gregory, L. (1990). Stories and Dreams: II. In: Gibbs, A.M. (eds) Shaw. Interviews and Recollections Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05402-2_4
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